Word: shavings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issues. What Spinney's briefing clearly shows is that attention must be paid not only to how much is spent, but how it is spent. According to his sobering analysis, the Administration's proposed buildup presents funding problems that go well beyond the question of how to shave $10 billion or $15 billion from this year's budget. The traditional methods of assault-whittling away at frills, stretching out weapons purchases, skimping on maintenance money-will be as futile in the short run as they are wasteful in the long run. In a windowless office...
...Petroleum Exporting Countries to prop up the cost of crude by curbing production have collapsed, at least temporarily. As a result, said Rimmer de Vries, chief international economist for Morgan Guaranty Trust, the official price of OPEC oil may fall from $34 per bbl. to $28, which would shave a percentage point off the U.S. inflation rate. James McKie, an economics professor at the University of Texas, maintained that unless OPEC regroups and sets production quotas, the oil price could drop even lower than $28. Last Friday a price war erupted. First Britain proposed to its customers...
...Uncle Al?' His eyes opened; a satyr's twinkle. His other hand grasped my knee. Nice firm leg, he said approvingly. Don't ever shave. No, you're not a child any more. Run along, or your grandmother will be scolding me again. Come again tomorrow...
...days by trimming $2 or $3 off its $33.50 charge for North Sea oil. He said that Nigeria, an OPEC member that has had particular trouble selling oil recently, might then feel forced to follow Britain's lead. If that happened, Yamani hinted, the Saudis might themselves shave a few dollars off their $34-per-bbl. price...
...compared the Coop with three other stores in drugstore and office supplies: Rix on Kennedy St. and CVS Pharmacy and Store 24 on Mass. Ave. In general, Rix and CVS appear to undersell their competitors across the board. On name brands in toiletries, they shave a few cents off their price--one pint of Flex Shampoo, for example, costs $2.58 at the Coop and $3.30 at Store 24, while selling for $2.47 and $2.49 at Rix and CVS respectively. Furthermore, in many cases Rix and CVS offer their own varieties. The comparable Rix brand shampoo costs $1.77, the CVS brand...